In general, all bodies whose surfaces are even will […] stick to each other, and if a liquid be smeared over either surface, their cohesion will be still the stronger.

Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.

And all the while the disentrayled blood / Adowne their sides like litle rivers stremed […].

Probably the first human being infected by Taenia solium was the Homo ergaster [1, 2]. Therefore, the history of epileptic seizures began at the Lower Pleistocene (between 1.51 and 1.56 million years ago) when H. ergaster lived.